Latest / Privycast / Ep. 60 Why Does My Pee Smell?
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- 0:01>> Speaker A: Uh, I mean, I still ate it, of course, but, like, I'm sitting
- 0:04there and I'm like, what in the heck did they do to my popcorn? Like, I
- 0:07stood there and watched the guy, like, onto the
- 0:10popcorn.
- 0:15Welcome back to privy. Privy is a
- 0:18podcast about bathrooms
- 0:20recorded this week. We're back
- 0:23in my home bathroom. Uh, it's good to
- 0:26be back. Uh, but it was a delight
- 0:29to get to spend some time, uh,
- 0:32in a friend's domain last week.
- 0:34So thank, uh, you again, Gavin, for having
- 0:37the show and for, uh, enlightening
- 0:40us on the woes of
- 0:43law enforcement and bathrooming. Um,
- 0:47I've shared, uh, on the show that
- 0:50I am an, well, I'm going to say
- 0:53enthusiast, uh, of the beautiful black
- 0:55beverage coffee. Uh, it is so good,
- 0:58and it definitely changes the
- 1:01makeup of what is going on,
- 1:04like,
- 1:06downstairs, specifically back
- 1:08door. But it
- 1:11primarily does that through, again, the laxative
- 1:13properties of the coffee, which,
- 1:16again, our friend Gavin last week so
- 1:19graciously, uh, discussed
- 1:22how it is an organic laxative, and so that's why we
- 1:25choose it. And before we get into the show,
- 1:27I want to just take a brief note
- 1:30here. And I got, first
- 1:33fatty sunburn. Not, um, really bad, but
- 1:36it's there. And, um, so
- 1:40might need to get some aloe or something. Probably not,
- 1:42because it's not that bad yet. And did
- 1:46wear my wife's sandals to
- 1:48school. I, uh, work at a school. I did wear
- 1:51those this week and stretched out the straps. So she
- 1:54hasn't figured that out yet, but she's probably hearing me from the
- 1:57other room and is discovering it in real time,
- 2:00so that's fun. But, yeah,
- 2:02this week on the show, um,
- 2:05we're going to discuss coffee. But this isn't
- 2:08the coffee extravaganza. Um,
- 2:11but we really want to,
- 2:14uh, come at looking at a
- 2:17wild function of human
- 2:19phenomenon, uh, and
- 2:22ask and answer one of those age old
- 2:25questions. We've all been in this
- 2:27situation. You're over at family dinner,
- 2:30or maybe you're staying the night at
- 2:33someone's house, and you're having dinner,
- 2:36and dinner is served.
- 2:38And what's that? That is
- 2:41plated before you. Your favorite
- 2:43friend, asparagus.
- 2:46Asparagus is there. And
- 2:48while you might love asparagus wrapped in
- 2:51anything or just straight up, I'm a
- 2:54straight up guy myself. I know some people got to wrap
- 2:57that noise in bacon just to feel
- 3:00okay about themselves. But just eat the asparagus.
- 3:03It's pretty good. But you
- 3:05know what's coming. As soon as you numb m
- 3:08down those little tree
- 3:10friends, you uh, know that there's going to be some
- 3:13wild smells coming from the
- 3:16urination station later on. And so
- 3:19this week on privy, we want to ask, and
- 3:22hopefully answer the question of
- 3:26why does our pea smell? And
- 3:28more importantly, why do certain foods
- 3:31make it smell weird? And so
- 3:34to look at this, uh,
- 3:38um, I did another one of those cursory, like,
- 3:41hunter searches the Internet, because
- 3:44here's the deal. Y'all could
- 3:46just pop onto the Internet and hit up google
- 3:49and find all of these answers yourself. But
- 3:52I think why you're coming here is to just
- 3:55maybe listen to a crazy guy
- 3:58just go on too long about the things that
- 4:01happen in the bathroom. And if that's the case, I'm glad you're
- 4:04here for it. So why does our pea smell?
- 4:06Well, the default smell
- 4:09of urine, which, um, never,
- 4:12if you're out on a date, those
- 4:15words should never, ever be said.
- 4:17Never use the phrase, well, the default
- 4:20smell of urine, if you're ever out with someone
- 4:23ever. But the default smell
- 4:26of urine basically depends on
- 4:29how well a person is hydrated, as well as
- 4:32their diet and any sort of medical concerns or conditions
- 4:35they may have. There is what I like to
- 4:38call a lot of variables here. Uh, and
- 4:41the default smell of urine
- 4:43has kind of like an ammonia flavor.
- 4:46And we kind of discussed that on our
- 4:49weird uses of urine episode. And we're not going to get
- 4:52back into the ammonia compound situation
- 4:55here, but that was due
- 4:57to primarily the fact that it has
- 5:00been used for cleaning and the ammonia. And they've used
- 5:03that. But the way that
- 5:06that ammonia compound
- 5:09gets in the urine, because you might be thinking to yourself,
- 5:11well, know, I
- 5:14got up, I had my cuff of Joseph or
- 5:17two, and I snacked down my lunch and,
- 5:20uh, went about my day, maybe had a snack, bunch of
- 5:22water. I mowed a lawn today.
- 5:25So, you know, I supp down some water real
- 5:28fast. You put down one of them 20 ounce water bottles
- 5:31in less than 30 seconds when you're thirsty enough.
- 5:34Yeah, I watched this kid on TikTok,
- 5:37like, slam four of those in a row and then bottle flip the last
- 5:39one, and every one of his friends lost their
- 5:42freaking mind. It wasn't the best things I've ever seen.
- 5:45Um, but the flavor,
- 5:48that smell, that
- 5:50ammonia just
- 5:52wash, gets in there as
- 5:55your fluids and other waste
- 5:58products is passed through the kidneys.
- 6:01So the kidneys is the part that does a lot of the
- 6:04cleaning. Most pee, if you want to know what it's
- 6:07made up of. So, on. Um, SpongeBob,
- 6:10you got plankton, right? Plankton's got one of those, like,
- 6:13you stick the thing in the thing, and it tells you
- 6:15the breakdown makeup of what it's
- 6:18made of. And he sticks in, like, seaweed.
- 6:21And it said 50% sea,
- 6:2350% weed, which is. That's a
- 6:26funny joke. But, um, if you were
- 6:29to waz into Plankton's,
- 6:33uh, tell me what's inside of it machine,
- 6:37they should make a character that's a mix between
- 6:40Dr. Dufensmurtz and Plankton. That would be an
- 6:43interesting mashup. I actually might be into that.
- 6:46Um, but if you were to pee into Plankton's,
- 6:49what's in it? Inator, if you will.
- 6:51Um, what's
- 6:54in it? Rp is primarily
- 6:57made up of water,
- 6:59salt, electrolytes, which, as I understand it,
- 7:02is just, like, super salt. Um, that's just
- 7:05Gatorade. Like, gatorade is electrolytes and
- 7:08urea or uric acid. These
- 7:10are often, like, a protein compound.
- 7:13More on those in a little bit. And those two, the urea
- 7:16and uric acid, those are produced
- 7:19in the kidneys when they're filtering out all
- 7:22the yucky stuff your body doesn't need. And so
- 7:26if you're a person who's hard on your kidneys, just
- 7:29drink a bottle of water. Like, do your kidneys
- 7:32a favor and drink yourself a big glass of water. Right now,
- 7:36dump one down for your kidneys. And
- 7:39think of your kidneys as, like, one of them
- 7:41Brita water filters. And, you know that top
- 7:44part that I think it just has grit in it and it
- 7:47filters the water down. But that top part
- 7:50gets all of the
- 7:53nasty stuff. It
- 7:55traps it all up there. And then sometimes it
- 7:58gets, like, that weird black, like, hoogity boogity up
- 8:01there. That black hoogity boogity is the
- 8:04urea and uric acid that is passed through
- 8:07your pee. The badness. The badness
- 8:10and the sadness. And so your
- 8:13kidneys are doing a lot of the
- 8:16heavy lifting of, uh, filtering out the 40
- 8:18ounce coffee and that big gulp you drank
- 8:21for lunch. You know what I'm saying? I see
- 8:24these people that, like. So I start my day
- 8:27with, um, between
- 8:3020 and 40oz of coffee. I
- 8:33know it's fine. It's
- 8:35over the course of, like, four to 6 hours, but
- 8:38still. But, uh, here's the deal. There's some people
- 8:41that start their day, like, prior to
- 8:44lunch, prior to 10:00 a.m. They start
- 8:47their day with a huge soda pop.
- 8:50And I'm not trying to talk you out of
- 8:53that if that's how you start your day you do
- 8:56it. But get off my chuff about
- 8:59my coffee. There is no
- 9:02sugar in my coffee. It's black.
- 9:05It's blacker than sin, so
- 9:08just cool it. And you know, those,
- 9:10like, those are going to generate some wee,
- 9:13like the big gulp soda and a, uh, big
- 9:16old fatty coffee. Those are going
- 9:19to generate some uric acid.
- 9:21I'll tell you what, and the more
- 9:24of that uric acid in your
- 9:27pea, the more likely that we get
- 9:29that weird pea smell. Or as
- 9:32the layman would say it, the more dehydrated you
- 9:35are. What a world. So
- 9:38here's the deal. If your pea is
- 9:42extra stinky, it could
- 9:45be some sign, like, I'm talking extra
- 9:47stinky. It could be some sign
- 9:51of a condition or possibly an
- 9:54illness. And chief amongst these, and probably
- 9:57the most common, would be some sort of
- 10:00bladder or urinary tract
- 10:02infection. Uti. Not to
- 10:05be. Um,
- 10:08yeah, uid,
- 10:11that's a different thing. Um, ied.
- 10:14Ued. We're not going to talk about that. Uh,
- 10:17it could also be a blood disorder. Like if your pea
- 10:19has a wild stank, could be something
- 10:23blood disorder, such as diabetes
- 10:25or a metabolic disorder where your body is
- 10:28not absorbing or breaking down things, as it
- 10:31should. Your pee can get stinky from all of
- 10:34these. And before we move on to the
- 10:37like, why do some things
- 10:40make my pee smell a certain way? I, uh,
- 10:43need to share something very weird here, and this is going to
- 10:46tie into and hopefully pay off later on the show.
- 10:49But for now, it's time for a mid episode
- 10:51segment of hunter's
- 10:54anecdotes to keep you afloats.
- 11:03This short, hunter's anecdotes to keep you
- 11:06afloats is called p wires crossed.
- 11:09So when I was in middle school, and
- 11:12as I thought back on this, after writing my notes
- 11:14down, I, uh, think the. The
- 11:17catalyst of this happened. We're gonna get to that in a minute.
- 11:20Uh, because I put that, I don't know when this happened, but I
- 11:23smacked my head pretty good when I was in late middle,
- 11:26early high school, and
- 11:29I think that's the catalyst of when this
- 11:32phenomenon began. Um, but
- 11:35in middle and high school,
- 11:38something happened. And one day, uh, me
- 11:41or my parents or me and some friends, I don't remember who, but
- 11:44we went to the movies, and we got some popcorn. You
- 11:47get your big old bucket of popcorn, and the
- 11:50dude's like, do you want butter? And,
- 11:53uh, up until now, because I'm too
- 11:56old to put butter on my popcorn otherwise,
- 11:59it gives me what we call a tummy ache,
- 12:01because my tummy is fragile to
- 12:04popcorn, apparently. Uh, but
- 12:07he's like, do you want butter? It's like, yes, sir. Load me
- 12:09up. And
- 12:13m he's getting the butter all over there.
- 12:16Uh, and he hands you this giant box of
- 12:19popcorn. Like, if one person ate this large popcorn,
- 12:22they should be hospitalized. Um, like, it's bigger
- 12:25than most people's heads. Uh, and so you get your
- 12:28popcorn, and you trundle into the movie,
- 12:30and you plop it down. You're sitting there, and I
- 12:33always try to wait to eat my corn before the movie, until the
- 12:36movie starts. Otherwise, I'm going to blast through that bucket
- 12:39before we're halfway through. So you're sitting there, and the movie's
- 12:42going, and I reach for that
- 12:45movie corn, which, again, tears me
- 12:48up something fierce. Nowadays. I think it's the butter. It has to be
- 12:51the butter. I'm an old man stage of life, but I reach for the
- 12:54corn, and as I raise my fist full
- 12:57of poppid corn to my mouth,
- 13:00I smell you take that
- 13:03big draw. That big draw. That's the sound
- 13:06of allergy nostril, by the way. Um, you take that
- 13:09big draw of poppet corn into your face
- 13:12hole. And most
- 13:15people are like, my goodness, I love the smell of popcorn, and I
- 13:18do, too. But when I did it this time in
- 13:21the movie theater, I got the overwhelming
- 13:24smell of urine. And,
- 13:26uh, I mean, I still ate it, of course, but I'm sitting
- 13:29there and I'm like, what in the heck did they do to my popcorn? Like, I
- 13:32stood there and watched the guy, like, onto the
- 13:35popcorn. And so I ignore the
- 13:38impulse and I just eat the popcorn and finish the
- 13:40movie. It's like, okay,
- 13:43it's just some weird thing. Maybe some little kid is
- 13:46in the movies and they had an accident. You just smelled the pee a little bit. Who
- 13:49knows? But you never know. Um, and so a month
- 13:52or so later, we're sitting around the house,
- 13:54and my dad will regularly pop. Just
- 13:57randomly. He will just show up on scene with a bag of
- 14:00popped corn. And it is one
- 14:03of his greatest credits. Uh,
- 14:06nobody's ever upset by it, I'll tell you that right
- 14:08now. Um, but my dad shows up with just a bag of
- 14:11popped corn, and I
- 14:14go and rip that colonel delight right open,
- 14:17and you get that first whiff of a
- 14:19fresh bag you're just getting up on there. And I hit
- 14:22it with again. The smell of
- 14:25pea meets my nostril
- 14:28holes, and I'm going, what is going on right
- 14:31now? And as time goes on,
- 14:34I notice that it's interchangeable.
- 14:37I find that sometimes when I pee or
- 14:40even like, uh, there's been times where I've been
- 14:42pooping and I've been sitting there and somebody comes in and
- 14:45blasts a rigorous stream.
- 14:48And I smell it, and I'm like, my goodness, it smells
- 14:51like popped corn. It's
- 14:53uncanny and unsettling, if
- 14:56I'm going to be honest.
- 15:00And then other times, I rip open a box
- 15:03of corn or a bag of corn, and it smells like
- 15:05pea. And I don't understand it,
- 15:08but it has made for some weird moments.
- 15:11Like, I remember the first time I explained this to my
- 15:13wife, and she was just like,
- 15:16what? Are you serious? I was like,
- 15:19yeah, it smells like pee. I, um, know it's
- 15:21not. Um. And when our kids
- 15:24were both in diapers, there would often
- 15:27be a moment where popcorn would be popped in
- 15:30the home, and I would smell it, and I would think that one of our
- 15:33children had an accident, only to be reminded that
- 15:36my nostril is a freak nostril.
- 15:38And it is made for some weird
- 15:41moments because coupled with the fact that my
- 15:44nose is broken in this very specific way, I
- 15:47also don't have a filter. Um, and so one time
- 15:50in college, shared bathrooms. Gotta love it. I've shared
- 15:53about the shared college bathrooms before.
- 15:56Someone had just blasted off team
- 15:59rocket were blasting off again, big stream of
- 16:02wi. And it smelled so strongly
- 16:05of wi in the bathroom. Like, not Nintendo's
- 16:08wi, but like
- 16:10trucker Dave wi. You know what I'm saying?
- 16:13Big urine. And
- 16:16I swear I walked into the bathroom and I just began
- 16:19asking people if there was fresh
- 16:22popped popped corn in the bathroom, because
- 16:25my brain was convinced that it was
- 16:28popcorn. Like, it smells like popcorn. My
- 16:30brain p wire is
- 16:33crossed. And it hasn't always
- 16:35been. Uh, sometimes
- 16:38I smell my pee. Not in a weird way,
- 16:41but you know how when you pee and you just do catch a whiff of
- 16:44it? Sometimes I do that, and it doesn't smell
- 16:47like popcorn. And sometimes I enjoy a
- 16:49bag of popcorn, and it doesn't catch
- 16:52me with my brain thinking it's urine.
- 16:55It's not a consistent thing, but it is a thing that happens.
- 16:58And it's freaking weird because I love
- 17:00popcorn. So when it does happen,
- 17:03it can be unfortunate because it's like, well,
- 17:06man, I kind of wish it didn't smell like a little bit like
- 17:09pea,
- 17:11but I can't be that grossed out because just
- 17:14last week, I drank, like,
- 17:1616oz of orange juice that was over 40
- 17:19days past the date. And so, uh,
- 17:22this pea smelling popcorn, it doesn't really matter to me.
- 17:25I'm going to snack it down because it's delicious.
- 17:28And that is a
- 17:31brief hunter's anecdotes
- 17:34to keep you afloat. Uh,
- 17:40this week we want to discuss
- 17:44the many things that makes pea smell
- 17:46weird. What does it,
- 17:49and why? And so some
- 17:52famous quote, famous foods that will rank your
- 17:55bank include, and we mentioned this at the top
- 17:58of this show, asparagus.
- 18:01Asparagus. You know, it would be
- 18:04a wild episode of vegetable tales
- 18:07where they explore like, hi,
- 18:09I'm junior asparagus, and I'm coming to grips with
- 18:12the consequences of my actions. And they use
- 18:15the smelly water
- 18:18as a consequence. And that way it's just like a
- 18:21joke for the parents. It's like, hey, parents, you know what this stuff does
- 18:23to, you know what I'm saying? Uh, I
- 18:26think in my riffing
- 18:29on that vegetable tales show, I
- 18:32may have just accidentally wrote the synopsis for
- 18:35the fake book and the publishers in elf
- 18:38that they talk about writing about with the self
- 18:41conscious piece of asparagus, who has the smelly
- 18:44pea. But anyway, wow,
- 18:47what a wild tangent. Um, asparagus makes your
- 18:50pea smell weird when the
- 18:52asparagus fluids in your kidneys,
- 18:55uh, meets up with the kidneys, and it's
- 18:58broken down into a compound.
- 19:01And that compound is called none
- 19:04other than
- 19:06asparagusic acid.
- 19:08Yes. Uh, the asparagus
- 19:11p produces what is
- 19:14called asparagusic acid
- 19:17because why else would it be named
- 19:20asparagusic acid?
- 19:23This acid contains sulfur
- 19:26compounds, which is what cause the
- 19:28unpleasant smell. This
- 19:31phenomenon can also be observed
- 19:34sometimes outside of asparagus. If you
- 19:37eat natural sugars, such as
- 19:40dried fruits, it can make your pea smell sweet. Um,
- 19:43and if this happens, like, if your pea smells
- 19:46sweet too often. I'm not a doctor. Big
- 19:49disclaimer here. I'm not a doctor. But if your pea smells
- 19:52overly sweet too often, go see a doctor.
- 19:54Because it could be an early sign of
- 19:57diabetes as the sugars have not been
- 20:00broken down appropriately in your urine.
- 20:03This phenomenon, this sweet smelling pea,
- 20:06can also be observed if someone consumes too
- 20:09much honey. Other things of
- 20:12note that cause some rank waz
- 20:15are fennel and brussels
- 20:18sprouts. You may have heard of
- 20:21garlic breath. Like, it's what
- 20:23SpongeBob and Patrick ran around with when they weren't
- 20:26really ugly. We're, uh, not ugly. We just
- 20:29think you take your date out
- 20:33for a hot round of all you can eat pasta
- 20:35bowl, and you're three deep on a garlic loaded
- 20:38pasta, buddy. And now you have bad breath problems.
- 20:41Well, garlic can also
- 20:44hit up your golden streams. It's not just a bad
- 20:47breath problem, it's a bad pea
- 20:50problem. When it's broken down in the kidneys,
- 20:53garlic produces the same chemical that makes
- 20:55you less kissable. Allele methyl
- 20:58sulfide, the culprit here being again, the
- 21:01sulfur compound. But this time with the
- 21:04garlic smell. I've never done a garlic pea, and
- 21:07I wonder if it's like my popcorn thing where sometimes it makes
- 21:10you want popcorn. After the experience.
- 21:13Did you know it's possible to get too many
- 21:15vitamins? Yeah. Vitamins, if you didn't
- 21:18know, are rocks that make your body
- 21:21powerful. If you gobble up
- 21:23too many of these power rocks, it's going to
- 21:26do some weird stuff to your pee.
- 21:33The flintstones yummy vitamins. They're
- 21:35delicious. But if you eat half of the
- 21:38container, it's going to do some weird stuff to your pea.
- 21:40That's a lot for your pea to break down. And
- 21:43it could change it. Not just the smell, but it
- 21:46could change the color to kind of a peaish
- 21:50shade of green, which would
- 21:53freak my beans so hard. If I peed and
- 21:56what looked like lime Gatorade came
- 21:59out, I think I might pass out.
- 22:02Like, if I'm standing there, zip,
- 22:05drop, sploosh, and the
- 22:07sploosh just looks like
- 22:10some sort of weird, like, green
- 22:13shampoo. I, um, think I might
- 22:16pass out on that or think I was an alien.
- 22:19I'm not sure which. If you get too many
- 22:22b vitamins, it's reported that your pea
- 22:25can smell like fish.
- 22:28Uh, that's
- 22:31such a terrible image to me. The
- 22:34worst smell in the universe is
- 22:37nothing that comes out of a bathroom. The
- 22:40worst smell in the universe is the smell
- 22:43of tuna fish that has
- 22:45been soaked and sitting in
- 22:48a container in the sink in warm
- 22:51water. And it has sat for more than
- 22:541 second in that water. So
- 22:56bad. Stinky tuna fish water is way
- 22:59worse. I would rather somebody rip
- 23:02beef square into. Well, no, I wouldn't,
- 23:05but, like tuna, uh, fish water is way worse
- 23:08than any fart on this universe. But we're really getting
- 23:10into the weird zone here. Like fish smelling
- 23:13pea. That's wild. As I
- 23:16noted, there are a number of medical concerns that
- 23:19can be related to the smell of pea.
- 23:22And in short, if you're concerned, call your doctor. Go
- 23:25see your doctor. A couple that I
- 23:28have shared, um, as far as weird
- 23:31things that make your pea smell weird, one, uh,
- 23:34that I experienced is coffee, that
- 23:37beautiful brown bean brew. If
- 23:40you're sick of the chemistry part of the episode so
- 23:42far, strap in, because we're not done.
- 23:45Coffee contains the compound
- 23:49hydroxynamic
- 23:51cynamic. Run at it again.
- 23:54First try. Here we go.
- 23:56Hydroxynamic acid.
- 23:58That has to be it. The hydroxy
- 24:01cynamic acid is what makes coffee
- 24:04smell so good and is
- 24:06responsible for why coffee is considered to be good for
- 24:09you. Do you hear that?
- 24:12It's considered to be good for you.
- 24:15So drink up here on
- 24:18privy. We drink the coffee, pour yourself a
- 24:21beautiful cup of bean juice, and if you don't like
- 24:23bean juice, that's totally fine. I'll let you marinate
- 24:26on it. You know what I'm saying? This acid,
- 24:29the hydroxy cynamic acid,
- 24:32when it is broken down, but when it is broken
- 24:35down, it can't get rid of all that acid. And
- 24:38so the more coffee that
- 24:41you have, the more likely that some of
- 24:44that hydroxy ceramic buddy is getting
- 24:47through and going to sneak through. They're like,
- 24:51um, no, actually, it's more like, dear lord,
- 24:54there's so much here we have to let some through. And
- 24:57sometimes there is so much that, as I have
- 25:00shared, your pea will just smell like a
- 25:03cup of coffee. This, coupled with the
- 25:06caffeine dehydrating, you may make the
- 25:09sensation even worse. When more than
- 25:11one cup is consumed and, you know, more
- 25:14than one cup is consumed, another that I
- 25:17have experienced is Cheerios. Or more
- 25:20specifically, honey smacks. Ye
- 25:23oldie Diggum's frog is serving up the
- 25:25smacks. And sometimes when you eat two men of
- 25:28old diggum's oat cereal, puffed
- 25:31rice, I don't know if it's puffed. Whatever. It's puff something.
- 25:34Puff the magic puff dragon. You know what I'm saying? Hoofity
- 25:37puffity. Show me the woofity. You get oat
- 25:40juice in your pee. That's what you got to know. Old
- 25:42diggum's frogs getting your weird pee.
- 25:46Or at least that's what my brain does. And these
- 25:48phenomenon are usually when the thing is consumed
- 25:51or was consumed in way too high of
- 25:54quantities. You overdid it.
- 25:57Last for me, and as I shared earlier in
- 25:59Hunter's anecdotes, is the popcorn.
- 26:03After the fact, I went and did some self validating
- 26:06research, and it turns out with the power of the
- 26:09Internet and the googling this nonsense, I'm less
- 26:11of a freak than I thought I was. Because here's the thing.
- 26:15I've never felt more validated in my entire life.
- 26:18It's real. This is real.
- 26:21I've decided to share the quote
- 26:23directly as it is written on
- 26:25healthline.com.
- 26:27Healthline.com writes this
- 26:30quote. Some common foods that
- 26:32may cause your urine to smell like
- 26:35popcorn include. Drum
- 26:38roll, please. Popcorn.
- 26:41There you go. But wait, it gets
- 26:44better. Large amounts of protein, which
- 26:47is high in ketones, and
- 26:49coffee, which contains large amounts
- 26:52of chemical compounds that leave the body through
- 26:55your urine. This is it.
- 26:59If you know me,
- 27:01you know that
- 27:04I will consume three things. This
- 27:07dude loves popcorn. He will eat some
- 27:10meat, and, you had better believe,
- 27:13guilty as charged. I love, love,
- 27:15love that beautiful brown bean
- 27:18juice. Love coffee. It's the, uh,
- 27:20popcorn. Urine triforce has been
- 27:23completed and has blasted itself
- 27:26out of my nether region. I have my
- 27:29answer. There's one more
- 27:32thing that is kind of wild and can
- 27:35make your piece smell different. And I saved this one for the end
- 27:38here, because what in the freaking heck?
- 27:41Sometimes inside our bodies,
- 27:43our organs can touch
- 27:46each other and they can rub up against each
- 27:49other, and they're
- 27:52not supposed to do that very much. And sometimes when
- 27:55that happens, there can be
- 27:57holes formed between one
- 28:00organ and the other. These organ holes
- 28:03are called fistulas. Yep,
- 28:06fistula. It's an unfortunate sounding
- 28:08term, but when this happens,
- 28:12things can pass between those
- 28:15holes. They're like weird portals or,
- 28:18like, ways through the upside down
- 28:21from one organ to the next. And
- 28:24sometimes a fistula can
- 28:27form between the bladder, which
- 28:29traditionally stores urine, and the
- 28:32stomach or digestive tract, which traditionally
- 28:35stores dookies. And when this
- 28:38happens, sometimes the pee system
- 28:41can get infected with poopy particles,
- 28:44and you're going to have a fart pee.
- 28:47Love you. Love you, too.
- 28:52Yep.
- 29:00Uh, wife just came in. Clutch with the
- 29:03drink. But you get a pea fart, fart
- 29:06pee, much like the green pea
- 29:09thing. If I'm peeing. If I'm
- 29:12peeing and I get a big draw of that pea smell
- 29:15and it smells like a fart, I would be so
- 29:17freaked. Our bodies are amazing.
- 29:21Yeah. So what's happening on this is some of the poopy matter
- 29:24is getting in your pea stream, and it's making your pea smell like a
- 29:27fart or a turd, and it's just wildly
- 29:29disturbing. Um, our bodies are amazing. That's what you got
- 29:32to know. Um, and sometimes the systems
- 29:35we have in place produce smells we would not
- 29:38expect. And I think what is uncanny
- 29:41is when those smells match up so
- 29:44well with the way the food went into our body
- 29:46that it hits us like, oh, my gosh, this is
- 29:49weird. And for the most part,
- 29:52it seems like it's totally okay unless it smells sweet.
- 29:55Pretty much everything I saw, if your pea smells sweet, to
- 29:58you. Go to your doctor and let them know about
- 30:00that. Uh, just do that.
- 30:03I want to take a moment before we get to the end of the
- 30:06episode and we close out here. I, uh, have a
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- 31:17we have a review to read this week. This was a
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- 31:25McNiner. Uh, thank you, Jay swizzle
- 31:27McNiner. I have a guess at who this is, but Jay
- 31:30swizzle McNiner writes, kyle Anthony sent me
- 31:33here. He told me to tell austin Kent hi.
- 31:36So I'm pretty sure I know who you are,
- 31:38Jay swizzle. And we're not going to get into that. But, um,
- 31:41hey, first of all, I want to say shout out to Kyle Anthony.
- 31:44Papa Kyle, you're in my phone as papa Kyle Anthony. Thank you for
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- 31:50you. And, uh, also shout out to
- 31:52Austin Kent, previous guest on the show, who
- 31:55is swiftly approaching fatherhood.
- 31:58So shout, uh, out to him again. Love you
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- 32:12Apple podcasts also, one last thing
- 32:15before we get to the closing, the
- 32:18cintus, America's greatest restroom competition,
- 32:21which we covered, um, in part, last
- 32:24year. And this year we will be covering it in full.
- 32:27Uh, is currently back underway, and they are
- 32:30taking submissions for the greatest
- 32:32bathroom of 2022 until June
- 32:3517. So you have until
- 32:38June 17. If you are listening
- 32:41and you know of a stellar bathroom that is clean
- 32:44and awesome to look at, it's super dope. You
- 32:47can go to the, uh, uh, cintus, America's
- 32:50greatest restroom competition webpage
- 32:53and we're going to put a link in the doodley bopper
- 32:55here. Uh, but go and nominate the
- 32:58rad bathrooms that you know.
- 33:01Yes, we'd love to. And send us an email, say,
- 33:04hey, I nominated this bathroom. It's going to be awesome.
- 33:08As always, thank you for
- 33:10listening. Uh, I appreciate you being here
- 33:13and listening to me talk about p for too
- 33:15long. Uh, as always, we want to thank
- 33:18Kevin McLeod for the use of barroom
- 33:21ballet as our intro and outro
- 33:23music. You can find Kevin's
- 33:25music@incompetent.com and his music
- 33:28is licensed under creative commons license
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- 33:34We would also like to thank Pottington bear for the
- 33:37use of all the colors in the world as
- 33:40the hunter's anecdotes, intro and outro music.
- 33:43You can find Pottington Bear's
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- 33:53guys for listening. Love you guys. And
- 33:56now, as always,
- 33:59don't forget to flush.